Upon taking office a little more than two years ago, President Obama made it a point that the federal government would take better care in managing data and IT budgets through consolidation and a focus on cloud computing.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety recently suffered its second major data leak in less than two weeks when hackers publicly exposed information stolen from the agency’s computer systems and police officers’ email accounts.

Researchers from Lookout Mobile Security are warning users of Android-based mobile devices about a new malicious application that bypasses the Android Market and downloads directly from in-app advertisements.